{"id":360504,"date":"2026-09-30T05:17:14","date_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:17:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360504\/"},"modified":"2026-09-30T05:17:14","modified_gmt":"2026-09-30T05:17:14","slug":"woman-punches-71-year-old-in-the-face-in-brooklyn-nypd","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/360504\/","title":{"rendered":"Woman punches 71-year-old in the face in Brooklyn: NYPD"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>BRIGHTON BEACH, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 A woman is wanted for allegedly punching a 71-year-old in the face during an argument, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>The alleged assault happened on Sept. 17 at around 4:10 p.m. near Brighton Beach Avenue and Brighton 15th Street, according to investigators.<\/p>\n<p><\/p>\n<p>\t<a href=\"https:\/\/www.pix11.com\/\" class=\"promo-link__link\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"><br \/>\n\t\tGet ongoing crime and safety coverage on our homepage\t<\/a><\/p>\n<p>The 71-year-old victim was sitting on a bench when she asked the assailant to stop smoking. The assailant became irate and punched the victim, police said. <\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" height=\"720\" width=\"1280\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/Elderly-attack.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-4537412\" \/>A woman is wanted for allegedly punching a 71-year-old in the face during an argument, according to police. (NYPD Handout)<\/p>\n<p>The assailant fled on foot. Police have since released a photo that can be seen above.<\/p>\n<p>The victim refused medical treatment at the scene, according to police.<\/p>\n<p>Submit tips to police by calling Crime Stoppers at 1-800-577-TIPS (8477), visiting\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/crimestoppers.nypdonline.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\">crimestoppers.nypdonline.org<\/a>, downloading the NYPD Crime Stoppers mobile app, or texting 274637 (CRIMES) then entering TIP577. Spanish-speaking callers are asked to dial 1-888-57-PISTA (74782).<\/p>\n<p>Andrew Cruz is a digital content producer.  A native New Yorker, he joined PIX11 in 2009 as a weather producer. More of his work can be found <a href=\"https:\/\/pix11.com\/author\/andrew-cruz\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">here<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"BRIGHTON BEACH, Brooklyn (PIX11) \u2014 A woman is wanted for allegedly punching a 71-year-old in the face during&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":360505,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39],"tags":[9,24,63,134,136,135],"class_list":["post-360504","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-staten-island","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc","tag-staten-island","tag-staten-island-headlines","tag-staten-island-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360504","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=360504"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/360504\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/360505"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=360504"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=360504"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=360504"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}